CAUGHT IN AMBUSH
TWO AUSTRALIANS KILLED IN JAVA WAR CRIMESJNVESTIGATORS (Rec. 9 a.m.) BATAVIA, April 18. Two Australian officers were killed when a war crimes investigating party was ambushed outside the Allied controlled area south of Buitenzorg yesterday. Another Australian officer is missing. The Indonesian authorities are trying to rescue him. The Australians are stated to have previously travelled through the area unmolested and they refused an escort for yesterday’s trip. A British military police officer Captain Murray Collins, commandant of the prison where war criminals are held in Batavia, . was slightly wounded in the ambush. An Indonesian transport headquarters spokesman stated that because of incomplete organisation the first movement of Japanese and internees being evacuated from central Java, due to begin yesterady, has been delayed for a few days. The chief difficulty was that the Indonesians were late in notifying the British how much coal was required for locomotives. The delay has no political implications. -
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 April 1946, Page 5
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